Big Cheese asked:


I can only work P/T and need to make money fast. I have applied at a few retail stores, but with the economy the way it is, they have yet to call. How can I make money online during my spare time?

Steve

Robert Podolsky asked:


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There are basically three ways to make money online. Each is distinguished by the method you use to bring visitors to your website. The choices are:

1. Offer your readers a chance to make lots of money with little or no effort,

2. Set up a niche marketing site and fool the search engines into ranking your web page highly, by means of “Search Engine Optimization” (SEO), or

3. Create a “content rich” website that over-delivers precisely the kind of information for which your readers are searching.

Consider the first option:

In this instance you are suggesting that your reader should be well rewarded for giving her customers something that costs her no effort. How much real value can such a product have? At best, you are inviting her to scam her readers, just as you are scamming her.

It is true that there are a lot of very desperate folks out there who will buy a “pig in a poke” business deal in hopes of solving their financial problems overnight. Do you want to make money by contributing to their woes? If so, you will have to go elsewhere to learn how to do it. I won’t be a party to such dealings. I urge you to reconsider.

The second option, niche marketing with SEO is viable, but it has a downside - some distinct disadvantages.

The Downside of SEO:

Let us take a look at those disadvantages. For starters, the search engines keep changing how they rank websites - they become ever more sophisticated in how they judge the quality of any particular website. Their objective is always to present the user with the best information possible about whatever topic is entered as the user’s keywords.

When you focus on search engine optimization you get ever further from the core purpose - providing quality information. The result, too often, is that you are not using your time and efforts well - and too often also, as the search engines get better your ranking suffers. Not the best plan.

Remember, the big three search engines, (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) have enormous resources at their disposal, and hire large numbers of experts to keep improving their algorithms - the mathematical formulas that compute the ranking scores.

The long and the short of it is that you can never keep up with them. I don’t recommend this.

A Better Way to Make Money Online:

Instead, stay focused on the quality and quantity of the information that you provide your website visitors. If this is truly your focus, your ranking will get better and better as the search engines evolve.

Maintaining this focus is the best of all ways to make money online. When you afford your readers lots of great information on the subject of their interest, they will come to trust what you have to say, and ultimately they will buy what you have to offer. It’s that simple - not always easy - but simple.

Needed Resources:

So what resources do you need to pursue this simple way to make money online? Ideally you will have at your disposal:

* Reliable web hosting,

* Capable online tools to do your market research - to determine which markets constitute potentially profitable niches,

* Detailed step-by-step instructions to design websites that please both the search engines and your website’s visitors,

* Website construction tools that enable someone with your level of skills to build a well-designed professional-quality website,

* Immediate feedback on the quality of each web page that you create, and guidance in editing the work that you have done to maximize its effectiveness,

* Traffic generation tools that successfully get your website noticed by searchers and search engines alike - thereby continuously improving your ranking and your visibility to potential customers,

* Detailed guidance that enables you to “pre-sell” your visitors effectively, by demonstrating your ability and willingness to provide them with top-notch information of the kind they are seeking,

* Excellent sales and presentation models to guide you through all aspects of monetizing your website profitably,

* In depth information on every phase of developing your online business - not just your website, and…

* Online forums in which you can ask questions concerning every step of the online business-building process - and get meaningful answers from a cadre of successful online entrepreneurs - whom you can actually contact and talk with.

Finding These Resources:

Whether you are a beginner, a novice, an experienced online marketer, or a professional webmaster, you owe it to yourself to have all of these resources at hand.

That may seem like a tall order, but the resources exist and cost far less than you probably expect. In fact, many are available for free.



Elizabeth

Terry Tay asked:


Who doesn’t want to be rich fast? Most of us think that making money online is not possible and some thinks that it is a waste of time. But why are there still people making six figure incomes online? Is there a proven way to make money online?

One of the easiest and simplest ways to make money online is to go into affiliate or online network marketing programs. You don’t have to create your product, salescopy, website, payment gateway. Almost everything is taken care of, including hosting. Their products are tested and proven, salescopies are professionally written and websites are professionally design. The only thing that’s for you to do is to promote the product. Simply!

How’s that sound to you? To me, it’s a lazy man’s game. You only need to focus on one thing which is to market and promote the product and that’s all you need to make money online.

To make simple things even simpler, you can leverage on others. Here are 5 simple steps to boost your online earnings.

1. Search for the best and most suitable online affiliate program.

This is the most important part. You need to be careful with which online affiliate program or online network marketing program you decided to join. Do a market research about the latest trends and changes. From your research you will be able to identify which industry is growing and which are the things that are on demand. Join an online affiliate program base on your findings.

2. Support, support and more support.

I can’t stress this more then anything else. I believe that joining the right program with the right support are keys to your success online. The support can be from your team leader or directly from the company.

I was very much like anyone that wants to create wealth online. I started with the right support from my team and that’s why I was able to grow and see results in as short as 30 days.

3. Do joint ventures. Form a team!

It’s toughest to work or doing everything on your own. What’s worst is, you might not know everything. Forming a team of like minded people is one way to kick start. What you don’t know, your partner might know and vice versa. This is what I call leverage. Your team growth will eventually double or triple.

4. Launch a marketing campaign

After you choose the program, speak to your team leader/upline, form you own initial team of 4 to 5. Launch an email campaign to your list of friends, business partners, colleague and like-minded people.

Step 1

Gather a list of 100 prospects and send a pre launch email. In this first email, do not tell them much about what you are doing. Keep it short and interesting. Your main objective is to create curiosity. End your email, stating that you will get back to them with more information. Give them a date to receive your email.

Step 2

In your second email, provide them with the benefit of the product or program. Remember! Benefit is very important, buyers sees the benefit before they decide to act upon. Confirm your actually launch date.

Step 3

Send them a surprise email prior to the launch date. In this email, you need to prepare in advance. Seek help from the product owner or your upline , get them to identify you and what you are doing. These can be in the form of video or audio. This email alone is very powerful and can increase your credibility.

Step 4

The actually launch. In the last email, provide them with information on how can they join the program. Assure them that they will have your full support once they join your team.

That’s it. It’s simple and straight forward. I notice the difference between those that succeed and fail, is applying what they know. Knowing is one thing but doing it is another. It’s easy to make money online and all you need to do is to apply what you learn.



Margaret

Megistus asked:


What is the FREE and Best way to make money Online for teens that are at least 13 to 17 years old with no job?

Esther

John Rattigan asked:


For anyone wanting to discover ways to make money online, the Internet is a vast place full of opportunities (and scams), and it can be overwhelming trying to find out the best way.

There are literally hundreds of ways to make money working online from home, from completing online surveys, selling goods on e-bay or even playing online bingo or poker! So how do you know which method is the real deal and which is just a lottery, or worse, a waste of your time?

There are 5 tried and tested strategies that work time after time and underpin nearly every internet success story out there. Here I shall share an outline of each one.

The Five Internet Income Streams

There are essentially five ways that you can make an income on the internet:

1. Advertising - This refers to one of two main methods; either the practice of selling space on your high traffic blog or website to paying advertisers, or of signing up to a service like Google Adsense that automatically places adverts on your site that relate to the content. Depending on the scheme, you either get paid when a visitor clicks through to the advertised site via your advert, or when they click through AND make a purchase.

2. Affiliate Marketing - This is where you basically get paid for promoting somebody else’s product. There are many ways of doing this but two popular methods are to go to a site like clickbank.com and typically select an e-book to sell. You then sell it by using Google adwords to advertise it. A second method is to recommend products sold on sites like amazon.com. For each sale you get a predetermined share of the sum the book or product sold for and the original author/product creator gets a pre-determined share too.

3. Ecommerce - This is where you trade via an online store. You can either use your own website or blog, or that of providers like ebay. You can sell anything, from products you have created to your old, unwanted belongings. Information products are a very successful way to generate regular online income. Typically you write an ebook or create a podcast or videos providing valuable content on a subject you know well, and sell it online. The secret is to test and make sure there is a market before investing time and effort in producing any of your own products.

4. Subscription - These days you can set up an online membership site; it’s like paying for a good old-fashioned magazine on your favourite topic. In order to succeed it must meet a niche market and provide valuable content and/or a link to a like-minded community. It should also offer products and services that would interest that community and can generate an additional commission via affiliate sales. Once set up and a vibrant community has evolved, it can be a great way to make money online with minimal effort.

5. Participation - This is the hardest market to ***** as it requires a high level of trust and commitment from your purchaser. Typically a relationship will have been built on and/or offline prior to any online participation sales. However once this relationship is built this is considered by many to be the best way to make money online due to the high transaction fees and loyal following that commands repeat sales through up-selling and cross-selling. You will typically be talking about services like mentoring, coaching, conferences, online training webinars etc which can command substantial fees. At the outset, when you are setting up your online business you should explore all the possible money making opportunities and ensure that the website you build at the outset has the capability to meet your needs as you add new ways of making money.



Javier

Don Downes asked:


When you start to think about making money online, do you ever picture yourself sitting on the beach with a laptop, sipping a little umbrella drink? Is it just me?

Or how about getting comfortable in your newly converted home office while you think about who your ex-boss is micro-managing at this very moment?

Not so fast.

With all of the make money online opportunities there are, how do you decide which work from home and make money online opportunities on the internet are not only right for you, but the real deal as well?

If you’ve taken a look at the make money online opportunities, it’s easy to get overloaded. Once you realize that a company would not sell a get rich quick formula that actually worked, it puts things into a clear perspective.

Would you sell a money making cash machine? I didn’t think so, me neither.

So now that we can ignore the fluff, we can avoid being overloaded and focus on what would be the right opportunity for you.

A no-brainer great way to make money online is to model someone who has already done it, and is bringing home the big bucks.

There are many average folks who are now making above average incomes because they didn’t try to re-invent the wheel. They copied somebody who was already making money online.

A successful online mentor has the “been there and done that” experience which we can learn from.

You don’t need to overload your brain trying to come up with that one bright idea that is going to make you rich.

Although, if you do come up with the next Myspace, please give me a call.

We’ve narrowed down the real opportunities from the get rich quick; we now know that we can model a successful person to duplicate internet success, what’s next?

How about making money online and enjoying what you do? Feeling good about your products or services that you are going to be promoting?

If you’re still mind-debating about which opportunity is right for you, check with your intuition.

If your gut feeling is telling you that this opportunity just doesn’t feel right, move on. The ladies have us beat on this one fellas. They’re just naturals on intuition.

When you’re reading over some slick sales copy and you get that strange feeling like this may be too good to be true, trust it.

So with these few small and easy tips to keep in mind when you’re looking for an online money making opportunity, you can save your brain from being overloaded and focused on what’s important.



Renee

Carael Knight asked:


If you are working with a product you know, love and really believe will benefit other people, you will become a salesperson without realizing it. You will not view yourself as selling something. You will see it as helping people and that service just happens to make money online for you.

What exactly is a product? Do you need a factory with big smoke stacks? No. A product is anything that you can provide that someone else will want to buy. What kinds of things do Americans buy? They buy anything. American’s love knowledge and are willing to pay a premium for it.

Most people who say they are not salespeople are, in fact, salespeople but they have tried to sell the wrong product. You have to find something you believe in. You must have confidence in your product or service before you can really sell it. If you are working for someone else, you are selling their passion not yours. You are making them rich when you could do this and work for yourself. Use your product to make money for yourself and experience your own success.

Use Your Talents

In the information age, what you know is a lot more important than what you do. Do you know some sure-fire ways to organize a messy closet? Do you know how to catch freshwater fish? Do you know some tips and tricks to help things in a workshop run more smoothly? Most importantly, do you know that any of that can be used to make money online?

However, no matter how much you believe in what you are offering, you will not make money if you get lost in information overload or flounder around without the right guidance. Thousands of people “make money online” and you can too even if you do not think you are a salesperson.

How to make money online by what you know

They have proven methods that can help anyone “make money online.” Perhaps you do not want to do classified ads. Maybe you want to get paid to help people. Can you turn your hobby into a money maker and can you use it to make money online? Most likely you can. If you know something that someone else needs to know, you can get paid for what you know.

Is that what all professionals do? Do we pay computer techs to turn screwdrivers or do we pay them for the knowledge of troubleshooting computers? Do we pay electricians to flip a switch or do we pay them for their expertise in wiring? We pay people for what they know because what they know drives what they do.

Getting Started Is The First Step Towards Making Money Online

You can do the same thing for yourself. You can be your own boss and enjoy the freedom of working from home. All you need is a little information to get started and you can get that with just a few clicks of the mouse.

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well on the internet. Even the quickest glance at any newspaper’s business section will reveal that leading companies have a presence on the web. A company that owns a television outlet just announced that they expected a billion dollars from internet revenue. That is a lot of money waiting to be grabbed.

So how do you start making money online?

How do people make money online? In some situations, it is obvious. The website is a virtual storefront and they sell a product. From quirky T-shirts to homes, there are a lot of things for sale on the web. People also make money online by charging visitors to view their content.

But is that it?

Are those the only ways to make money online? Not by a long shot. Internet advertising is another way that many people make money online. But what do you offer people in those advertisements? Where do you post them that won’t cost an arm and leg? You are running your own business and you do not want overhead to eat all of your profits.



Herman

Matt Helphrey asked:


As the Internet continues to mature sometimes we make things more difficult than we should. When it comes to making money on the internet you really only need four things. In this article let’s talk about the four things you need to make money online.

1. First of all you need a product that people have a need for, an interest in, and the ability to pay for. The Internet has made it possible for all of us to be involved in the worldwide economy.

However there are certain products that lend themselves better for Internet sales than others. Selling information products is a great way for the average person to make money online.

2. Next, we need to find some customers to buy our products. Today people go online looking for answers to questions, or attempting to solve a problem that they have.

This presents a tremendous opportunity for all of us to make money online selling information that solves these problems. There is a skill to this, but it also makes it easy when we begin to understand what problems people are facing

Then it just becomes a matter of finding products that address these problems, or creating products and selling them ourselves.

3. We need a way to be able to deliver the products to our customers. Affiliate marketing handles many of these day-to-day aspects such as collecting the money and shipping the product. However if you are creating your own products this is another reason why information products work so well for the average person.

Instant access and deliver ability are a few of the many benefits the Internet brings. Once a person has paid you they can be directed to a download page where they have instant access to the product they have just purchased.

4. The final point to we want to address is creating a system for your success. Basic components of this include having a website, a blog, an autoresponder, and a funnel system including backend products to sell.

Until you are promoting your system on a consistent basis, you will not make a penny online. This means learning Internet marketing skills and traffic generation methods that you become comfortable with.

In summary you can see that to make money online you need a product there is a need for, customers who can purchase your product from you, a way to collect the money and deliver the product to your customer, and a system to generate traffic and sell products on the back end.



Diane

Scott Allen McKay asked:


In this day and age anyone with a computer can find a way to make money online. It wasn’t all that long ago that people were looking for ways to earn additional income doing more of what they have been doing conventionally for the last 30 years. The Internet and e-commerce has changed all of that and the new online business revolution has begun.

There are a number of home based business companies that have made a transition into the Information Age with an online business model. The question you have to answer is this; Do I want to take a cookie cutter template that has a proven track record or create a business model all of my own?

The answers to this question will be very diverse. Some big thinking entrepreneurs will look at the Internet as a way to make money online by exploiting the necessary services of creating an application that will run or promote various home based business models or even create online accountability and training systems for those models. The rest of us look at this medium as a way to possibly sell our wares or to advertise our services.

The cookie cutter template to make money online, such as becoming an affiliate marketer for an online merchant, offers the luxury of having a replicated website of your own and a variety of brand name products that you can sell and make a commission. Another such opportunity is an online business for an MLM company where you can accomplish sales by driving traffic to your site, organically or inorganically, or to recruit new affiliates to your team where you can also make commissions. Either way the opportunities are endless.

The larger thinking entrepreneur has to think in terms of hiring programmers, coders, graphic artists, consultants of various types, and many others that are involved in developing a business that will make money online. These types of operations are obviously extensive and require a large amount of capital and man power. Those business are the eBay’s, Amazon’s, and Google’s on the largest scale and Free Credit Report and Credit Monitoring on a smaller scale.

The upside to some of the larger models to make money online are that they afford others a template to make money online for themselves. i.e. eBay. This model has enabled hundreds of thousands of people to make money online simply by selling items they’d throw away or collect items from others to sell around the world.

There are exciting opportunities on the horizon for making money online so be sure to watch for a new revolution in the hybrid model of eBay, Amazon, Google, and My Space. Good luck!



Yolanda

cosmoman01 asked:


Having been referred to some residual income online business opportunities before, I still need your expert guidance on how to actually get started and most importantly how to make sure I really make money out of it.
In advance many thanks for all your unselfish input and advices.
I look forward to learning from you.

Edwin